August 2021, Week 4

08/24/21 • 19 min

This week's topics:

PRRI study reveals that evangelicals who are hesitant to get vaccinated say that they could be persuaded by their religious leaders.

Ministers who encourage their flock to get vaccinated, ministers who demonize vaccination, and ministers who are afraid to tell their flock to get vaccinated.

Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: (Wave 2: June 2021), https://www.prri.org/research/religious-vaccines-covid-vaccination/

Vaccine skepticism runs deep among white evangelicals in US, https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vaccine-skepticism-runs-deep-white-evangelicals-us-76882757

Death Cult Preacher Hands Out "Exemption Letters" to Anti-Vaxxer Christians, https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/08/20/death-cult-preacher-hands-out-exemption-letters-to-anti-vaxxer-christians/

White Evangelical Pastors Hesitant to Preach Vaccines, https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/may/white-evangelical-pastors-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-preach-ch.html

White Evangelical Churches and the Crisis of Vaccine Hesitancy, https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-08-10/white-evangelical-churches-and-the-crisis-of-vaccine-hesitancy

Pastor reveals the reasons behind COVID vaccine hesitancy in the evangelical community, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pastor-reveals-the-reasons-behind-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-in-the-evangelical-community

--- Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

This week's topics:

PRRI study reveals that evangelicals who are hesitant to get vaccinated say that they could be persuaded by their religious leaders.

Ministers who encourage their flock to get vaccinated, ministers who demonize vaccination, and ministers who are afraid to tell their flock to get vaccinated.

Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: (Wave 2: June 2021), https://www.prri.org/research/religious-vaccines-covid-vaccination/

Vaccine skepticism runs deep among white evangelicals in US, https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vaccine-skepticism-runs-deep-white-evangelicals-us-76882757

Death Cult Preacher Hands Out "Exemption Letters" to Anti-Vaxxer Christians, https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/08/20/death-cult-preacher-hands-out-exemption-letters-to-anti-vaxxer-christians/

White Evangelical Pastors Hesitant to Preach Vaccines, https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/may/white-evangelical-pastors-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-preach-ch.html

White Evangelical Churches and the Crisis of Vaccine Hesitancy, https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-08-10/white-evangelical-churches-and-the-crisis-of-vaccine-hesitancy

--- Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

Previous Episode

August 2021, Week 3

This week's topics:

Secular Weddings! And Ed's first time officiating one!

The Holy Land Theme Park in Orlando sold to a Seventh-Day Adventist health-care company https://religionnews.com/2021/08/05/orlandos-holy-land-theme-park-sold-by-tbn-to-healthcare-company/

Ken Ham now claiming that pedophilia is part of the "Secular Worldview" (hint: it's not) https://rightingamerica.net/to-be-secular-is-to-be-a-pedophile-ken-ham-and-the-courting-of-qanon/

Kentucky Herald Leader promotes local paranormal podcast and it's claims on it's front page, leading to concerns that it will promote conspiracy thinking. https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article253465949.html

Ravi Zacharias International Ministries plagued with scandal over reports of his sexual misconduct after his death, attempts to cover it up, and the actions of a former spokesperson who tried to correct harm that had been done. https://religionnews.com/2021/08/13/ruth-malhorta-wanted-to-help-save-the-world-instead-she-ended-up-defending-an-abuser-raavi-zacharias-alori-anne-thompson/

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Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

Next Episode

September 2021, Week 1

Topics:

The situation in Afganistan and the effects on people living there who are nonreligious and ex-Muslims who are being threatened by the Taliban.

Recent Abortion Bans -- including on in Texas that targets people for helping people getting abortions. And how a city in Ohio is attempting to do the same.

Blitzwatch update and the exposure of their updated legislative playbook: https://www.blitzwatch.org/

https://religiondispatches.org/exclusive-christian-right-bill-mill-project-blitz-hasnt-gone-away-its-just-gotten-more-secretive/

Post-Census Redistricting in Kentucky

Ken Ham lied about "pre-pandemic" record numbers at Ark Encounter in July. Huge shock.

Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents